Hi All,
I would like to write a little about my reflections and thought which are related to the readings we had.
First, Creating and Connecting - As I saw the words social networking, I immediately thought about the risks involved in letting kids use those services. How to prevent them from being those few that meet strangers? How do you protect your child from seeing and being exposed to harmful contents? How do we limit students from doing improper use of blogging in the classroom? Those are very important issues to think about when dealing with social networking as a teacher, parent or school policy member.
"The vast majority of students, then, seem to be living by the online safety behaviors they learn at home and at school" (p. 6).
It is reassuring to read that if you teach safety measures, most of your student would follow it, but still, we have to be aware of the minority students.
In addition, I was surprised to read that the majority of the students who use social networking talk specifically about schoolwork, hence, I agree that social networking can be directed towards educational and school work purposes!
In Learning Connections article, I enjoyed to find out about new technologies!
I especially liked the ReadPlease 2003. I think it can be a helpful tool not only for vision impaired students but also for students who are learning to read, or as it is written; "students can listen to their written products for word and punctuation omissions...and content of the sentences".
Lastly regarding this article - the Quality Images for the Classroom - I was surprised to think that I might have not been always aware of the copy rights unless it was right in front of my eyes! Reading about it definitely increased my awareness.
To Keyboard or not to Keyboard -
Here I was yet again surprised :-)
I haven't given the thought I would have to teach children to use the keyboard. Rather I thought - oh, it is something every child knows how to do this days... :-)
I liked the methods described here, and especially the opportunity to teach kids additional subjects such as Left and Right. I also liked the idea of having floor keyboard that the students can walk on. I always think that activities that involve the whole body and not only the mind, are very beneficial for young learners.
Have a good weekend, and see you Wednesday,
Anat
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We are definitely going to have an interesting class on Wednesday night when we address the issue of social networking - using these new literacies in classrooms. Tools that children are already using in informal environments. Keyboarding is usually an after-thought for many of us (teachers) but to do many of the activities that we have done in this class students still needs basic skills in this area.
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